Chapter 12 - Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 2. guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
  2. 3. the process of bringing charges against a government official for wrongdoing
  3. 5. promoted a social liberal platform that includes support for Social Security and unemployment insurance. The New Deal attracted strong support for the party from recent European immigrants but diminished the party's pro-business wing.
  4. 8. believed they should be given equal rights and have the same opportunities as white people. They also wanted the leaders of the Confederate States of America to be punished for any part they played in the Civil War.
  5. 10. an American white supremacist hate group. It was started in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24, 1865
  6. 12. an American military officer and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
  7. 15. the 17th President of the United States, assumed office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and faced significant challenges during the Reconstruction era, fought with Congress over the integration of Southern states and the rights of freed slaves. His opposition to the Radical Republicans' policies led to his impeachment by the House, though he was acquitted by a single vote in the Senate.
  8. 16. would also have abolished slavery, but it required that 50 percent of a state's White males take a loyalty oath to the United States (and swear they had never assisted the Confederacy) to be readmitted to the Union.
  9. 17. an American politician and lawyer who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, being one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.
  10. 20. led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States
  11. 21. a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
  12. 22. granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”
  13. 23. declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.”
  14. 24. outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.
Down
  1. 1. military courts designed to judicially try members of enemy forces during wartime, operating outside the scope of conventional criminal and civil proceedings.
  2. 2. abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories
  3. 4. The right to vote in presidential elections
  4. 6. the first institution of higher learning for African Americans
  5. 7. an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management
  6. 9. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
  7. 11. someone who is dishonest and untrustworthy
  8. 13. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
  9. 14. provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia in the years following the war
  10. 18. Republicans that might vote democratic
  11. 19. a person who tries to take advantage of a group by joining it only for his own personal benefit.